'So bad': Bob Woodward calls Biden's debate performance political h-bomb
WASHINGTON − Bob Woodward knows a little bit about political scandals that could bring down the president.
The famous journalist, who helped break the 1972 Watergate scandal, told MSNBC Friday that President Joe Biden’s debate performance was “so bad, so awful” that something must have happened for it to go haywire.
“I think the answer here is in reporting, in seeking very aggressively an explanation what happened here?” Woodward said. “We don't want it to come out in some book, or some memoir and a couple of years or a decade. We'd need to know now.”
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Woodward said calls for Biden to drop out of the 2024 race are “inevitable.”
“His performance was - I sat there and watched it and I could not believe it. I said, Not only is this a political hydrogen bomb for him in the Democratic Party. It, you know, what happened? What happened?” Woodward said. “And if you look back at this, he holed up for days working on this preparing for it. He knew its significance. Somebody who is a practiced politician like Biden will internalize and rehearse lines. There must have been some of that, but he got thrown off his own game somehow.”
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Bob Woodward calls Biden's debate performance 'bad'
